The story
- Italian · borrowed fromschifo“disgust, nausea”
- English todayskeevy
From Italian schifo (“disgust, nausea”) plus English suffix -y. Compare Italian schifoso (“disgusting, loathsome”).
Words from the same roots
Italianschifo all →
skeeveskeevedskeevies
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.